Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — jsiminoff

jsiminoff

HN member
Joined
Sun, Nov 18, 2012, 11:22 PM UTC
HN karma
197
Public activity
21 items

About jsiminoff

former founder of Phonetag and Unsubscribe.com. Currently Chief Inventor and CEO at Ring.

Recent public activity

  1. story
  2. story
  3. story
  4. story
  5. story
  6. story
  7. comment
  8. comment
    Comment #9563978

    Should be announcing some things on that shortly

  9. comment
    Comment #9563977

    Have some plans. Will be announcing soon.

  10. comment
    Comment #9563718

    Did not abandon. Still support it. Was a Gen 1 product for sure. Ring is our V2 and so far has been very well received, great reviews and very happy customers. We did do a $99 upgr…

  11. comment
    Comment #9563709

    Good question. We had already been doing a lot of direct business before we changed the name to Ring (we were formally Doorbot). I basically made the assumption that if Ring.com in…

  12. comment
    Comment #9563687

    Appreciate your opinion (really do). The design was driven not just by what we wanted it to look like but also the physical constraints around some of the features the product has.…

  13. comment
    Comment #9563653

    The domain was definitely not cheap. So far I think it was the right decision to buy it and I believe we have seen enough benefit from it to make it worthwhile. However we will not…

  14. story
  15. story
  16. comment
  17. comment
    Comment #4955710

    We did which is why we felt we had no choice but to refund if we could not support it.

  18. comment
    Comment #4955263

    We more then asked Apple we had submitted the project to them through the MFI process. Apple changed their policy and I have to think it is because of the incredible response this …

  19. comment
    Comment #4955259

    Luckily we had not done the refunds yet. That would have really sucked...

  20. comment
    Comment #4955184

    I am Jamie Siminoff the inventor of POP. We are in the process of confirming if the changes that Apple PR told the press are true. If they are then POP will be made and I look forw…

  21. comment
    Comment #4951602

    Just want to add some points to this thread as I am the inventor of POP. For those who question our motives, your reasoning is fair but let me clarify some things. We started Chris…